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Integrate.ai was recently featured in two Globe and Mail articles showcasing the exciting work that's underway with our alpha clients, including: Corus Entertainment, Scotiabank and Kanetix Ltd. See below to learn more about how we're working together to drive meaningful business results through these partnerships:

We're proud to be highlighted in this article as a strong player in the AI startup ecosystem. Here's a quote on the great success we've seen to-date from President and Chief Executive Officer at Corus Entertainment, Doug Murphy:

"The code went to work, and when Corus took Integrate.ai’s first suggestions, they were 50 per cent more effective than past efforts at generating viewership for shows such as Siren on ABC Spark, which was promoted during commercial breaks of The Incredible Dr. Pol on Nat Geo Wild. “There’s clearly something there,” Mr. Murphy said. “If I can move the needle on the efficacy of cross-promotions, that creates real value for me.” Now, he said, “more light bulbs are going off” inside Corus about how to solve other business challenges using artificial intelligence tools."

If they can do that, the opportunity is huge, Mr. Murphy said. “Their addressable market is traditional industries that need to reinvent themselves in the digital age, and that’s basically everybody.”

This Globe and Mail article focuses exclusively on integrate.ai and our clients, highlighting the revenue impact we have had on businesses after only a short time in market. Andrew Lo, President and CEO at Kanetix Ltd. shared:

In a business where effective campaigns might increase conversions by one percentage point, integrate.ai’s insights led to a 13-per-cent bump for Kanetix. Mr. Lo had initially expected no improvement. Now, “we’re going to start scaling [the use of integrate.ai ’s tools] within our organization,” he said.

Kathryn Hume, our VP Product & Strategy, recently published an article in the Harvard Business Review: How to Spot a Machine Learning Opportunity, Even If You Aren’t a Data Scientist. Hume walks readers through how to identify a business opportunity that can be solved using machine learning. She provides an easy-to-understand introduction to supervised learning and provides a process business stakeholders can apply to identify an impactful machine learning opportunity.

It's an exciting day at integrate.ai - we're pleased to announce the creation of a strategic advisory board that will advise our company as we continue to develop our next generation artificial intelligence platform.

The members of our new strategic advisory board bring a wealth of knowledge and experience from a variety of industries, and will be tremendous resources to the integrate.ai leadership team, strengthening our ability to apply AI to drive customer engagement and revenue growth.

As part of the creation of this advisory board, integrate.ai has also closed a strategic investment round of $4.625M (USD), comprising key investors, including advisory board members, employees, and leading AI-focused venture capital firms Georgian Partners and Real Ventures. This follows our previous announcement of a $5M (USD) seed round investment by Georgian Partners in February of this year. A larger institutional Series A round is scheduled to be completed in 2018.

Our Advisory Board Appointments:

Praveen Arichandran, Director of Growth at Tesla

Jordan Banks, former Managing Director at Facebook and Instagram, Canada and former Global Head of Vertical Strategy at Facebook Inc.

Our Principal Product Manager, Tyler Schnoebelen, was a guest on The Impact Podcast, produced by Georgian Partners, to discuss the fascinating world of linguistics, emoji and conversational AI. As an expert on emoji and many of the social aspects of language, Tyler shares his views on how our use of language is evolving and how that affects the ways in which businesses need to engage with their customers.

Kathryn Hume, our VP of Product & Strategy, is passionate about educating audiences about practical applications of AI. She was just in Montreal for Startupfest, presenting on the future of AI as it impacts the lives of students moving into the field. Check out this video from McGill University that includes a quick interview with Kathryn and the highlights of her talk.

Techvibes recently spotlighted our CEO Steve Irvine in their Vanguards series. Check out their profile to read about Steve's thoughts on starting a tech business in Toronto, attracting top tech talent, and bridging the gap between research and industry in AI.

This week, our CEO Steve Irvine was featured in the Georgian Partners Impact Podcast. He chatted with the Impact team's Director, Market Insights, Jon Prial, about bridging the gap between social and business data to more accurately predict what people want. Check out the podcast to listen to Steve describe how integrate.ai is using artificial intelligence to make the interactions between people and businesses more natural and effective.

The Vector Institute launched last week in Toronto and as a founding sponsor the integrate.ai team were thrilled to be part of it all. Watch this video we put together at the event and hear from some of the key people involved with the project including Chief Scientific Advisor, Dr Geoffrey Hinton, and the Vector Institute's Board of Directors Chair, Ed Clark.

Today’s launch of the Vector Institute — a new independent research facility for artificial intelligence (AI) focused on deep learning and machine learning — is a very important event for Canada. The country is already a leader in academic research for AI and the Vector Institute will both extend that leadership and create the linkages to industry that are required to accelerate the commercialisation of AI technologies across our economy.

Over the past decade many of Canada’s top AI researchers have been recruited to work at Apple, Google and other global leaders. And while that is testimony to the quality of our universities, it also makes it difficult for Canada to maintain its leadership in AI research. With the launch of the Vector Institute there is now a new option for those researchers: to stay in Canada and work on open ended, transformational AI research problems, without being encumbered by either teaching requirements or the drive for applied research in the commercial world.

And by building linkages to industry including financial support from partners such as Integrate.ai, Georgian Partners and others, the Vector Institute is establishing strong commercial relationships that will help bring new AI research to market. That access to the best minds in deep learning and machine learning will represent a significant competitive advantage for those companies collaborating with the Institute, and for the wider Canadian technology ecosystem.

In the end, it will be the commercial partners of the Vector Institute, startups and enterprises alike, that will be the key to Canada’s long-term economic success in AI. Only by bringing new AI research to market as part of real products and services can Canada benefit fully from AI.

We’re excited to be supporting the Vector Institute and we look forward to collaborating with the team over the next few years.

Our Story

Helmed by our founder, former Facebook executive Steve Irvine, we are one of the fastest growing AI startups in Toronto. We are currently in an exciting growth stage, and seeking new talent that are enthusiastic about taking action and driving impact in a fast moving environment.

Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and focused on trust and impact: you'll constantly face new challenges and have the opportunity to learn from a leadership team with previous experience at Facebook, Airbnb, Fast Forward Labs, and Machine Zone.

Our Team

The diverse experiences, ideas, and identities of integrate.ai’s team members help us make better decisions and drive great results. We foster an inclusive work environment that welcomes team members of all backgrounds and perspectives. We are building a team of naturally curious people, interested in making an impact and tackling complex problems head-on. If this sounds like you, please apply and come work with us!

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At the latest TechTO, Integrate.ai founder spoke on the ways founders could put some ‘soul’ into their businesses. Just as no one can declare themselves “cool,” Irvine said that no one can declare that their business has soul. The former Facebook executive said he spends the majority of his time now defining what his business is going to be about. To him, the concept around “business soul” is what you do when no one is looking, together with what you do when everyone is looking.

Every few years a technology that takes over the business world captures the undivided attention of investment community. It happened with cloud, with mobile and with big data. Each of those technologies were responsible for creating an entire ecosystem of startups and investors.